Restricted activities
The direct delivery of therapeutic or instructional procedures to a client — capped at no more than 40% of your total hours.
What it means
The BACB® defines restricted activities as “the delivery of therapeutic or instructional procedures to a client” — the hands-on, technician-level implementation work. It counts toward fieldwork but is capped at 40% of total hours, so trainees spend enough time building the analytic skills the credential is about.
Example
Directly running a skill-acquisition program or implementing a behavior-reduction plan with a client is restricted. Important experience, but it can never exceed 40% of your hours.
Where it trips people up
Trainees working full-time as RBTs® often accumulate restricted hours quickly and hit the 40% ceiling long before 2,000 hours. Note the BACB®’s own caveat: this restriction “does not necessarily refer to all time spent working with a client.”
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